Things Fall Apart Igbo Culture Analysis

The Decisive Factor that Causes the Disintegration of Igbo Culture

The African Culture’s disintegration is one crucial problem Achebe gives concerns to in Things Fall Apart. He expresses that factors inside culture and the invading colonial culture that jointly lead to this “fall apart”. Contrary to conventional postcolonial discourse that places western physical and cultural invasion at the center of the blame, Achebe’s implicit claim in Things Fall Apart attributes the ultimate disintegration of the Igbo society to the social structure that inherently classify people into different groups. No doubt, without the invasion of the colonists, African culture will not start falling apart. However, this essay is going to argue that in Chinua Achebe’s novel, the subaltern problems of the native colonized play a more important role than the external factors in the collapse of Igbo culture. The coming of the colonists starts rolling the wheel of culture’s destruction, but the causes inside African culture in novel

The newly born twins have to be cast into the Evil Forest, because “Single births are regarded as typically human, multiple births as typical of the animal world, So twins [are] regarded as less than human, and put to death”(TFA 26). The mothers of twins suffer greatly in this society. It is hard to imagine to what degree Uchendu’s daughter, Akueni, has suffered from being forced to abandon her many twins in the forest again and again. Evidently, Achcbe has displayed in Things Fall Apart some people with the capacity of the introspection of such social injustice. It can also be inferred from the reactions of Obierika, when he reflects sadly and indignantly “what crime [did] they commit?”(TFA 125). Now we could imagine what a painful life the subaltern people live in that society. According, it is this internal factor that precipitate the falling of African